As the popularity of IE4 gained it became increasingly important to Jeff to maintain cross browser compatibility and to this end he created a little Java Applet to allow IE4 to pass external content into an existing element.

Not long after, he cottoned on to using an Iframe technique where content would be loaded into a hidden Iframe and then sucked back out and into a div element. This was the genesis of what today is known as the Remote Iframe Scripting.

Around this time, Jeff and I struck up a friendship and began to work on refining that technique and over the years it progressed to what both Jeff and I currently use on our sites. We call it External HTML Loading.

As our friendship grew we started to think about